Today's #FolkloreThursday theme is Spring, so here is a collection of folktales about our favorite spring flowers

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A Bavarian folktale says Snow was originally colorless. It asked various flowers to lend their colors but all refused, until kind little Snowdrop was willing to share. Ever since then snow has been white, and snowdrops are the only flowers it doesn't bother.
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There's a Hungarian tale about a widow and her daughter who buy violets from a poor woman and plant them in their garden. The girl hears the flowers crying, and finds out they are an enchanted prince. She finds a way to break the enchantment and save him.
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In a Hungarian legend a young prince protects the tulips in his mother's garden by shielding them from a hailstorm. When their castle comes under attack, the tulips transform into guards in colorful uniforms and defend the lady and the boy.
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Yet another Hungarian legend says that when the fairies left our world, some of them wanted to stay behind and keep an eye on the humans they loved. So they transformed into buttercups, forget-me-nots, and other wildflowers, and they stayed with us.
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A Chinese Hakka folktale tells of a poor but kind boy who was gifted an ever-blooming daffodil field by the Jade Emperor. After that, he made his fortune as a gardener of daffodils.
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